1) to contend with (BUT:
to be content(ed) = zufrieden)
2) vicissitudes
3) to decline/declining
4) Atlantic-centered
5) to displace cf:
DP: displaced person = Vertriebener
6) gravitational centre
7) imperceptible cf:
to perceive
8) with confidence
9) the axis of power turns on (here: = depends on)
10) essential >> essentially (adj.)
11) “special relationship”*)
12) (to be) desperate
13) to invoke/noun: invocation cf:
to revoke, to provoke
14) to be positioned
15) hegemonic
16) yet
17) to pertain
(to)
18) no longer (verb) with anything like the […]
19) force
20) the eastern seaboard
21) matrix **)
22) (more) proximate to …. (than) to
23) significantly (adv.)
24) to suggest: (here: “to indirectly state”)
25) nation-state
26) to prove an exponent of
27) locations
28) to demarcate
29) to keep in place
30) nation-builders
31) the degree to which
32) a model inherited from the past
33) to aver:
34) authentic:
35) reinvent/rethink:
36) scenario:
*)
“special relationship” between
Britain and the USA:
a)
www.nato.int/docu/speech/1946/s460305a_e.htm
b) http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/5/newsid_3304000/3304505.stm
**)
"The best of Matrix" (youtube):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglvaToq4SM&feature=related
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